The stars (well, some of them anyway) descended on the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden tonight for the biggest event in the British film calendar - BAFTA's 64th annual Orange British Academy Film Awards, which honoured outstanding cinematic achievement from 2010. Historical drama The King's Speech led the way in terms of nominations with fourteen and was successful in seven categories, winning Best Film, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter), Best Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score and Outstanding British Film.
David Fincher collected the Best Director gong for The Social Network, which was also recognised with the awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. Inception won three awards (Sound, Production Design and Special Visual Effects) and Alice in Wonderland two (Make-up and Hair, Costume Design), while there were also honours for True Grit, Black Swan, Four Lions, Toy Story 3 and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The 64th British Academy Film Awards...
Academy Fellowship
Sir Christopher Lee
Best Film
Nominees are: Black Swan, Inception, The King's Speech, The Social Network and True Grit.
And the BAFTA goes to: The King's Speech (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)
Best Actor
Nominees are: Javier Bardem (Biutiful), Jeff Bridges (True Grit), Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Colin Firth (The King's Speech) and James Franco (127 Hours).
And the BAFTA goes to: Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
Best Actress
Nominees are: Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit).
And the BAFTA goes to: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Best Director
Nominees are: Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), Danny Boyle (127 Hours), David Fincher (The Social Network), Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) and Christopher Nolan (Inception)
And the BAFTA goes to: David Fincher (The Social Network)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Nominees are: 127 Hours (Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel), The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin), Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt) and True Grit (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen).
And the BAFTA goes to: The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
Rising Star Award (public vote)
Nominees are: Gemma Arterton, Andrew Garfield, Tom Hardy, Aaron Johnson and Emma Stone.
And the BAFTA goes to: Tom Hardy
Best Animated Feature Film
Nominees are: Despicable Me (dir. Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin), How To Train Your Dragon (dir. Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois) and Toy Story 3 (dir. Lee Unkrich).
And the BAFTA goes to: Toy Story 3 (dir. Lee Unkrich)
Outstanding British Contribution to Film
And the BAFTA goes to: The Harry Potter film series
Best Original Screenplay
Nominees are: Black Swan (Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin), The Fighter (Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson), Inception (Christopher Nolan), The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg) and The King's Speech (David Seidler).
And the BAFTA goes to: The King's Speech (David Seidler)
Best Supporting Actor
Nominees are: Christian Bale (The Fighter), Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), Pete Postlethwaite (The Town), Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right) and Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech).
And the BAFTA goes to: Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)
Outstanding British Film
Nominees are: 127 Hours (dir. Danny Boyle), Another Year (dir. Mike Leigh), Four Lions (dir. Chris Morris), The King's Speech (dir. Tom Hooper) and Made in Dagenham (dir. Nigel Cole).
And the BAFTA goes to: The King's Speech
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Nominees are: The Arbor (Clio Barnard, Tracy O'Riordan), Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz), Four Lions (Chris Morris), Monsters (Gareth Edwards) and Skeletons (Nick Whitfield).
And the BAFTA goes to: Four Lions (dir. Chris Morris)
Best Supporting Actress
Nominees are: Amy Adams (The Fighter), Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech), Barbara Hershey (Black Swan), Lesley Manville (Another Year) and Miranda Richardson (Made in Dagenham).
And the BAFTA goes to: Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Special Visual Effects
Nominees are: Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Inception and Toy Story 3.
And the BAFTA goes to: Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Aithadi, Christian Manz (Inception)
Best Original Score
Nominees are: 127 Hours, Alice in Wonderland, How To Train Your Dragon, Inception and The King's Speech.
And the BAFTA goes to: Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech)
Best Foreign Language Film
Nominees are: Biutiful (Mexico/Spain), The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden), I Am Love (Italy) and Of Gods and Men (France).
And the BAFTA goes to: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (dir. Niels Arden Oplev)
Cinematography
Nominees are: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, The King's Speech and True Grit.
And the BAFTA goes to: Roger Deakins (True Grit)
Production Design
Nominees are: Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, Inception, The King's Speech and True Grit.
And the BAFTA goes to: Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat (Inception)
Costume Design
Nominees are: Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, The King's Speech, Made in Dagenham and True Grit.
And the BAFTA goes to: Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland)
Sound
Nominees are: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, The King's Speech and True Grit.
And the BAFTA goes to: Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, Ed Novick (Inception)
Make-up and Hair
Nominees are: Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1, The King's Speech and Made in Dagenham.
And the BAFTA goes to: Valli O'Reilly, Paul Gooch (Alice in Wonderland)
Editing
Nominees are: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, The King's Speech and The Social Network.
And the BAFTA goes to: Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter (The Social Network)
Short Animation
Nominees are: The Eagleman Stag, Matter Fisher and Thursday.
And the BAFTA goes to: The Eagleman Stag
Short Film
Nominees are: Connect, Lin, Rite, Turning and Until The River Runs Red.
And the BAFTA goes to: Until the River Runs Red
Preview...
Looking at the contenders, it could be a good night for Tom Hooper's acclaimed drama The King's Speech, which leads the field with a staggering fourteen nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter) and Best Original Screenplay (David Seidler).
Psychological thriller Black Swan will also be hoping for glory with nominations in twelve categories including Best Film, Best Director (Darren Aronofsky), Best Actress (Natalie Portman), Best Supporting Actress (Barbara Hershey) and Best Original Screenplay (Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughli).
The King's Speech and Black Swan are joined by Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan), True Grit (dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) and The Social Network (dir. David Fincher) for the prestigious Best Film Award, while the Coens lose out on a nomination in the Best Director field to Danny Boyle (127 Hours) - check out our filmmaker profiles on each of the Best Director nominees - Darren Aronofsky, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Tom Hooper and Christopher Nolan.
Author J. K. Rowling and producer David Heyman are set receive the award for Outstanding British Contribution to cinema on behalf of the Harry Potter film series, which has seen its global gross surpass the $6b mark with latest release Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and will draw to a close after a decade on screens when Part 2 arrives this coming July.
Screen legend Sir Christopher Lee will also be honoured with BAFTAs highest accolade, The Academy Fellowship, in recognition of an exceptional career that has seen him appear in over 200 films ranging from British classics such as Dracula and The Wicker Man to Hollywood blockbusters Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings [Five Essential Christopher Lee Villains].
Meanwhile the Orange Rising Star Award, which is decided by a public vote, is contested between Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans), Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), Tom Hardy (Inception), Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass) and Emma Stone (Zombieland). Quite a superhero-centric field, what with Hardy joining The Dark Knight Rises as Bane and Garfield and Stone heading up the cast of the Untitled Spider-Man Reboot as Peter Parker and love interest Gwen Stacy.
See the full list of nominations, and check out all of our awards season coverage.
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